EDCARN provides technical expertise to help set and implement standards for quality management of patients with EIDs, serving as a catalyst and operational arm for treatment, prevention, and clinical research. EDCARN also includes a pool of expert clinicians to be deployed during outbreaks for technical support, training and mentoring of the local, national and international health workforce.

EDCARN is a network of clinicians and other subject-matter experts involved in the clinical management of and research into EIDs, including experts from governmental and non-governmental organizations, academia, WHO, and other stakeholders. EDCARN is coordinated and administered by the WHO Clinical Management Unit in the Pandemic & Epidemic Diseases Department at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, over 80 clinical experts and 20 institutions are actively collaborating in EDCARN.